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An advantage of an IRC chat over a purely web-based chat is that you can pick from innumerable programs that you can customize (change the fonts, change the background, write your own scripts and many other things). The main advantage for many people is that the chat doesn't happen directly in your browser but in a program you can run in the background, which means that it is faster and less prone to errors.